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Еду на Сипадан с 25 Ноября по 3 Декабря, если есть опыт погружений, буду рад советам. А может кто ещё едет?
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Kapalai Dive Report (April) 2008
(written in the form of an advisory email with all the stuff they don’t tell you on the website)
Kapalai is a resort built on stilts on a sandbar about 20mins speedboat ride from Sipadan. You get there by flying to Kota Kinabalu and then on to Tawau, the resort picks you up from there and it’s a 1hr minibus ride (80km) to the port of Sempora and then a 30min speedboat ride to the resort.
We arrived at 11:00hrs in the morning and after brief snack & welcome talk it was straight off for the 1st dive before even checking into our rooms. This is to give the cleaning staff time to change over the rooms if the resort has a high occupancy. The arriving guests are asked to grab their dive kit and leave their bags in the recreation room. It pays therefore to have all your dive kit in just the one bag if possible rather than spread out between 3 bags otherwise this dive can become a hassle instead of a bonus.
Diving Overview
The resort does 3 boat dives a day and unlimited diving on the house reef. The 2 dives in the morning are usually on Sipadan and these are the dives everybody comes for so if you are going to miss a dive make sure it’s not these. When there is high occupancy sometimes a group will do their 1st dive on Mabual and then go across to Sipadan at midday and do 2 dives (the lunch box dive we called it).
Sipadan has recovered greatly from the time when there were 5 resorts on the island and Open Water Courses were being conducted just off the Drop-Off. All the dive sites on Sipadan rate a 5 (out of 5) on my dive site rating scale. All the dive sites are wall dives except Barracuda Point and South Point which are a plateau & sloping respectively. The diving is 1st class with great diversity and fish numbers, not sure you will dive anywhere else with as many turtles, guaranteed about 5 on every dive and as many as 40. Water temperature is around 28°C year round, I dived in a 3x2 shortie but didn’t do any night dives.
The 1st dive is done (all boat dives are 45min duration) and then the surface stop is made on Sipadan Island itself and then a 2nd dive is made before returning back to Kapalai. Sipadan has sand flies which if you react to them can be extremely painfull. Protection against them is either a wetsuit (full) or suntan oil (not suntan lotion) they drown in the oil. The times of the dives are 05:30hrs, 09:30hrs or 12:00hrs (lunchbox dive), if you do the early dives you can be back at the resort for breakfast by 09:00 having completed 2 dives.
The 3rd dive is in the afternoon on either Mabual or on dive sites around Kapalai. The dive sites around Mabual get a rating on my scale of between 4 and 2 while those around Kapalai are 3 and 2, the house reef rates a 2 but is great for finding Mandarinfish at around sunset. With very little difficulty and without doing a night dive it is possible to do 5 dives a day and for someone who does the night dive then 6 dives per day is doable though probably not recommended from a safety point of view. Also I’m not sure the house reef is worth 3 dives a day unless only staying for a couple of days. We stayed for 14 days and did 52 dives, 4 dives per day except on the 1st & last day when we did just 2, we were getting bored with the food but not with the diving!!
On the resort itself the rooms are very good and well laid out with spacious rooms and bathrooms desk, fridge, kettle & coffee & tea etc. The rooms are constructed to be airy with ceiling fans rather than aircons installed. This does mean that sound can be an issue if you have noisy neighbours. A couple of nights the resort had groups of non-divers (Malaysian) who were not sympathetic to the needs of the 05:30 divers. A set of ear plugs is something that should be packed just in case.
Meals tend to be mostly Asian cuisine buffet style and while maybe not gourmet would be fine for most people, can’t see anyone loosing weight at this resort even with 5 dives a day. Beer is reasonable (£1.30/can Tiger beer) and they also serve wine. Spirits and cocktails are not provided for but they have no problem with people consuming their own liquor and will keep your bottle behind the bar.
There is a charge for wireless internet.
Things to bring other than dive gear, clothes & the usual: duty free, suntan oil, ear plugs
Kapalai Dive Report (April) 2008
(written in the form of an advisory email with all the stuff they don’t tell you on the website)
Kapalai is a resort built on stilts on a sandbar about 20mins speedboat ride from Sipadan. You get there by flying to Kota Kinabalu and then on to Tawau, the resort picks you up from there and it’s a 1hr minibus ride (80km) to the port of Sempora and then a 30min speedboat ride to the resort.
We arrived at 11:00hrs in the morning and after brief snack & welcome talk it was straight off for the 1st dive before even checking into our rooms. This is to give the cleaning staff time to change over the rooms if the resort has a high occupancy. The arriving guests are asked to grab their dive kit and leave their bags in the recreation room. It pays therefore to have all your dive kit in just the one bag if possible rather than spread out between 3 bags otherwise this dive can become a hassle instead of a bonus.
Diving Overview
The resort does 3 boat dives a day and unlimited diving on the house reef. The 2 dives in the morning are usually on Sipadan and these are the dives everybody comes for so if you are going to miss a dive make sure it’s not these. When there is high occupancy sometimes a group will do their 1st dive on Mabual and then go across to Sipadan at midday and do 2 dives (the lunch box dive we called it).
Sipadan has recovered greatly from the time when there were 5 resorts on the island and Open Water Courses were being conducted just off the Drop-Off. All the dive sites on Sipadan rate a 5 (out of 5) on my dive site rating scale. All the dive sites are wall dives except Barracuda Point and South Point which are a plateau & sloping respectively. The diving is 1st class with great diversity and fish numbers, not sure you will dive anywhere else with as many turtles, guaranteed about 5 on every dive and as many as 40. Water temperature is around 28°C year round, I dived in a 3x2 shortie but didn’t do any night dives.
The 1st dive is done (all boat dives are 45min duration) and then the surface stop is made on Sipadan Island itself and then a 2nd dive is made before returning back to Kapalai. Sipadan has sand flies which if you react to them can be extremely painfull. Protection against them is either a wetsuit (full) or suntan oil (not suntan lotion) they drown in the oil. The times of the dives are 05:30hrs, 09:30hrs or 12:00hrs (lunchbox dive), if you do the early dives you can be back at the resort for breakfast by 09:00 having completed 2 dives.
The 3rd dive is in the afternoon on either Mabual or on dive sites around Kapalai. The dive sites around Mabual get a rating on my scale of between 4 and 2 while those around Kapalai are 3 and 2, the house reef rates a 2 but is great for finding Mandarinfish at around sunset. With very little difficulty and without doing a night dive it is possible to do 5 dives a day and for someone who does the night dive then 6 dives per day is doable though probably not recommended from a safety point of view. Also I’m not sure the house reef is worth 3 dives a day unless only staying for a couple of days. We stayed for 14 days and did 52 dives, 4 dives per day except on the 1st & last day when we did just 2, we were getting bored with the food but not with the diving!!
On the resort itself the rooms are very good and well laid out with spacious rooms and bathrooms desk, fridge, kettle & coffee & tea etc. The rooms are constructed to be airy with ceiling fans rather than aircons installed. This does mean that sound can be an issue if you have noisy neighbours. A couple of nights the resort had groups of non-divers (Malaysian) who were not sympathetic to the needs of the 05:30 divers. A set of ear plugs is something that should be packed just in case.
Meals tend to be mostly Asian cuisine buffet style and while maybe not gourmet would be fine for most people, can’t see anyone loosing weight at this resort even with 5 dives a day. Beer is reasonable (£1.30/can Tiger beer) and they also serve wine. Spirits and cocktails are not provided for but they have no problem with people consuming their own liquor and will keep your bottle behind the bar.
There is a charge for wireless internet.
Things to bring other than dive gear, clothes & the usual: duty free, suntan oil, ear plugs
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